Teaching Compassion in Prison: A Key to Learning.

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Autor/Urheber	Em Strang
Institution	University of Bergen
Titel	Teaching Compassion in Prison: A Key to Learning.
Quelle	In: 2387-2306; doi:10.15845/jper.v2i2.867; Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 52-61 (2015)(2015) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.15845/jper.v2i2.867
Schlagwörter	Prison Education; Psychology; Compassion; Spirituality; Education (General); Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology; HV1-9960
Abstract	In a project with long-term prisoners at HMP Dumfries, Scotland, tutors and students explore the notion and application of compassion, focusing in particular on the ways in which understanding compassion enables learning – not just the learning of academic subjects but also of interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. The project highlights the benefits of teaching a so-called extracurricular subject, at the same time as revealing its centrality to learning in the first place. A lack of adequate teaching time in prison, and the fact that compassion is not considered a core subject in education, are both cited as obstacles in consolidating the work of the project. The benefits of teaching compassion - emotional, intellectual and spiritual - was made clear through written and verbal student feedback. Three short workshops highlighted the enormous potential in developing and establishing compassion as both subject and practice in prison education. It is hoped that practitioners and researchers will support the expansion of this work throughout prisons.
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